Module io.sf.carte.css4j

Package io.sf.carte.doc.style.css.nsac

package io.sf.carte.doc.style.css.nsac

NSAC: a non-standard revision to W3C's SAC api.

NSAC 2

NSAC 1.0 was intended to be an easy upgrade path for SAC users, and it preserved most of SAC. That 1.0 API was not convenient for modern CSS, however, so NSAC 2 was written as a better replacement.

The SAC jar file is no longer necessary, as NSAC 2 contains all the required classes and interfaces.

Selector Serialization

Implementations of the selector interfaces are not required to provide a toString() serialization, although the reference implementation (the doc.style.css.parser package) does. It is not recommended to use it for serialization, however, as it may not reflect namespace changes made after the parsing took place (i.e. changing the namespace prefix). The rule serialization in the Object Model implementation of css4j does account for that, and it does not use the selector's toString().

If you combine NSAC with your own Object Model code, you may want to follow the same approach and serialize the selectors yourself.

Parser Flags

To let the parser be configurable, two methods were added to the Parser interface:

void setFlag(Flag)

void unsetFlag(Flag)

where Flag is a flag from an enumeration:

• STARHACK. When STARHACK is set, the parser will handle asterisk-prefixed property names as accepted names. This hack (that targets old IE browsers) is ubiquitous in present-day websites, and in plain SAC parsers it was producing 'unexpected character' errors because the property names are not valid according to the specification. However, these declarations weren't real mistakes and the style authors wanted them to be there.
• IEVALUES accepts values with some IE hacks like IE expressions (progid included), and also values ending with \9 and \0. The non-standard values produce LexicalType.COMPAT_IDENT values as a result.
• IEPRIO accepts values with the !ie priority hack, and again produces LexicalType.COMPAT_IDENT values.
• IEPRIOCHAR accepts values with the !important! priority hack, and instead produces LexicalType.COMPAT_PRIO values.

LexicalUnit Extensions

Some of the above Internet Explorer compatibility flags require the use of two pseudo-values that do not follow standard CSS syntax:

• COMPAT_IDENT values are produced only when the IEVALUES and IEPRIO flags are used, and contain ident-like values.
• COMPAT_PRIO values are produced by the IEPRIOCHAR flag, representing values that its compatible browser interprets as being of !important priority.

Caution is advised when using these compatibility pseudo-values, as they may conflict with syntax-conformant values.

W3C Copyright Notice

This software includes material derived from SAC (https://www.w3.org/TR/SAC/). Copyright © 1999,2000 W3C® (MIT, INRIA, Keio).

Related Packages

Module	Package	Description
io.sf.carte.css4j	io.sf.carte.doc.style.css	This package and its subpackages provide an implementation of the CSS Object Model API.
io.sf.carte.css4j.awt	io.sf.carte.doc.style.css.awt	Helper class for AWT rendering.
io.sf.carte.css4j	io.sf.carte.doc.style.css.om	Implementation classes for the CSS Object Model API.
io.sf.carte.css4j	io.sf.carte.doc.style.css.parser	Classes related to CSS parsing.
io.sf.carte.css4j	io.sf.carte.doc.style.css.property	Implementations of CSS property values.
io.sf.carte.css4j	io.sf.carte.doc.style.css.util	Utility classes that could be used in your CSS projects.

Class	Description
ArgumentCondition	A condition is applied to a list of selectors that is supplied as an argument to the selector name.
AttributeCondition	Based on SAC's AttributeCondition interface by Philippe Le Hegaret.
AttributeCondition.Flag	Attribute selector flags.
CombinatorCondition	Based on SAC's CombinatorCondition interface by Philippe Le Hegaret.
CombinatorSelector	Combinator selector.
Condition	Based on SAC's Condition interface by Philippe Le Hegaret.
Condition.ConditionType
ConditionalSelector	Conditional selector, by Philippe Le Hegaret
CSSBudgetException	CSS budget exception.
CSSErrorHandler	A CSS event handler for low-level parsing errors.
CSSException	CSS runtime exception, normally related to parsing.
CSSHandler	A CSS event handler for low-level parsing.
CSSMediaParseException	Media-related parse exception.
CSSNamespaceParseException	Namespace-related parse exception.
CSSParseException	CSS parse exception.
DeclarationPredicate	A condition that declares a property name and a value.
ElementSelector	Element selector, created by Philippe Le Hegaret
InputSource	An generalized input source.
LangCondition	SAC's LangCondition interface by Philippe Le Hegaret.
LexicalUnit	Based on SAC's LexicalUnit interface by Philippe Le Hegaret.
LexicalUnit.LexicalType	The lexical type.
Locator	Locate a place in a document.
PageSelector	A page selector like :first.
PageSelector.Type
PageSelectorList	List of page selectors.
Parser	A low-level CSS parser.
Parser.Flag	NSAC parser flags: the Parser.Flag.STARHACK, Parser.Flag.IEVALUES, Parser.Flag.IEPRIO and Parser.Flag.IEPRIOCHAR flags are supported.
Parser.NamespaceMap	Interface giving access to namespace URI from the prefix.
ParserControl	Allows convenient access to certain parser functionalities.
PositionalCondition	Based on SAC's PositionalCondition interface by Philippe Le Hegaret.
PseudoCondition	A Condition for a pseudo-class or pseudo-element.
Selector	Based on SAC's Selector interface by Philippe Le Hegaret.
Selector.SelectorType
SelectorFunction	The selector() function.
SelectorList	List of selectors.
SimpleSelector	Simple selector, by Philippe Le Hegaret